It’s fairly common experience to attend a tech event, look up, and realise you are staring at an all men panel, here is a roster of amazing women to fix this problem

After speaking at 39 events in 16 countries last year, there was one unfortunate reality – most of the panels consisted of men.

So today, I would like to share 88 reasons to avoid this situation. If you are looking to host a tech event, here are 88 amazing women to share their inspiring stories.

Entrepreneurs:

• ID – Diajeng Lestari – Hijup

• ID – Veronika Linardi – Qerja

• MY – Ai Ching Goh – Piktochart.com

• MY – Cheryl Yeoh – Formerly MaGIC

• MY – Raja Jesrina Raja Arshad – PurelyB.com

• MY – Tan Hooi Ling – Grab

• MY – Xin-ci Chin – Watch over me

• PH – Chow Paredes – Zipmatch

• PH – Jessica Mah – inDinero

• SG – Aihui Ong – Lovewithfood.com

• SG – Alexia Sichere – Try and Review

• SG – Alexis Horowitz-Burdick – Luxola

• SG – Audrey Tan – Playmoolah

• SG – Claire Chiang – Banyan Tree

• SG – Cynthia Siantar – Call Levels

• SG – Elizabeth Tan – Heatwave Shoes

• SG – Inez Wihardjo – BonAppetour

• SG – Katherina-Olivia Lacey – Quincus

• SG – Maelle Pochat – Try and Review

• SG – Maria Kuvshinova – Clubvivre

• SG – Min Xuan Lee – Playmoolah

• SG – Olivia Lum – Hyflux

• SG – Qing-Ru Lim – Zopim

• SG – Rosaline Chow Koo – CXA

• SG – Roshni Mahtani – The Asian Parents

• SG – Sanjna Parasrampuria – Newcleus

• SG – Shao-Ning Leigh Huang – JobsCentral

• SG – Stephanie Chai – TheLuxeNomad.com

• SG – Stephanie Crespin – StyleTribute.com

• SG – Zhi Min Seetoh – Indiescapes

• TH – Oranuch Lerdsuwankij – Techsauce

• TH – Shannon Kalayanamitr – Founder & Group CMO at ORAMI

• VN – Linh Thai – Rita and Phill

• VN – Tu Ngo – YOLA

ID: 2 | MY: 5 | PH: 2 | SG: 21 | TH: 2 | VN: 2

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Venture Capital:

• PH – Vesi Kertikova – LGT Impact Ventures

• SG – Anne Marie Droste – Entrepreneur First

• SG – Carmen Yuen – Vertex

• SG – Junus Eu – Razer

• SG – Melissa Heng – General Atlantic

• SG – Monica Tsai – Singtel Innov8

• SG – Nakamura Reina – DMP

• SG – Raya Papp – LGT Impact Ventures

• SG – Shao-Ning Leigh Huang – Entrepreneur First

• SG – Shirley Wong – TNF Ventures

• SG – Soo Boon Koh – iGloble Partners

• TH – Plern Tee Suraphongchai – Venturra

• VN – Shuyin Tang – Unitus Impact

PH: 1 | SG: 10 | TH: 1 | VN: 1

Community Building:

• MY – Jowynne Khor – Formerly MaGIC

• MY – Lais de Oliveira – Startup Grind / TheList KL

• PH – Gina Romero – Athena Network

• PH – Tina Amper – Geeks on a Beach

• SG – Anne-Laure Herrezuelo – Hub Singapore

• SG – Aziza Sheerin – General Assembly

• SG – Kristine Lauria – TheList SG / Walkabout SG

• SG – Mei Yi Yeap – Peatix

• SG – Michelle Yong – Collision 8

• SG – Saranta Gattie – The Working Capitol

MY: 2 | PH: 2 | SG: 6

Corporate Startup Engagement:

• SG – Alice Wei – Facebook

• SG – Anne Salado-Chauffaille – AWS

• SG – Barbara Guerpillon – Unilever

• SG – Georgina Kwa – Deloitte

• SG – Patricia Polizzi – Mercedes Benz

• SG – Piruze Sabuncu – Stripe

• TH – Stephanie Strunk – Amadeus

SG: 6 | TH: 1

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Media:

• PH – Jean de Castro – Bloomberg TV

• SG – Debbie Lee – Tech Storm

• SG – Eileen Yu – Independent

• SG – Grace Chng – Independent

• SG – Gwendolyn Regina Tan – Mashable

• SG – Jacquelyn Cheok – Business Times

• SG – Yoolim Lee – Bloomberg News

• TH – Oranuch Lerdsuwankij – Techsauce

• VN – Iris Leung – Independent

PH: 1 | SG: 6 | TH: 1 | VN: 1

Associations:

• ID – Sati Rasuanto – Endeavor

• SG – Anna Ratala – Slush

• SG – Elisha Tan – TechLadies

• SG – Joyce Huang – Singapore Geek Girls

• SG – Roshni Mahtani – Female Founders

ID: 1 | SG: 4

Education:

• SG – Claudia Zeisberger – INSEAD

• SG – Lily Chan – NUS

• SG – Virginia Cha – SMU

SG: 3

APAC:

• AU – Annie Parker – Lighthouse Sydney

• AU – Melanie Perkins – Canva

• CN – Jenny Lee – GGV

• HK – Edith Yeung – 500 Startups

• HK – Juliette Gimenez – Gossip

• HK – Karen Farzam – WHub

• HK – Michele Daoud – Monk’s Hill Ventures

• IN – Valerie Wagoner – Twitter

• JP – Allison Baum – Fresco Capital

• JP – Emi Takemura – Peatix

AU: 2 | CN: 1 | HK: 4 | IN: 1 | JP: 2

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Thank you Sati Rasuanto, Lais de Oliveira and Vishal Harnal for reading drafts of this list and suggesting updates.

This article was first published on http://www.arnaudbonzom.com/.

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